The build: agents shipped inside your stack
5 agents, built against the baselines the audit measured and the exception categories it named. Each one runs on top of the systems you already own, through service accounts scoped to the actions it is allowed to take.
| # | Agent | What it does | Hrs/week | Annual value | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Code Context | Answers where something lives and why it was built that way, from the repository and its history. | 36 | $158k | 4:1 |
| 02 | PR Reviewer | Runs the first pass on convention, test coverage and obvious defects before a human reads it. | 28 | $142k | 3:1 |
| 03 | Ticket Triage | Classifies incoming issues, links duplicates and routes to the component owner. | 21 | $86k | 3:1 |
| 04 | Onboarding Guide | Answers the questions a new engineer would otherwise interrupt someone to ask. | 12 | $62k | 3:1 |
| 05 | Incident Summariser | Assembles the incident timeline from logs, deploys and the thread that ran alongside. | 9 | $42k | 3:1 |
Ratio is automated steps to human steps within that agent's flow. The 5 agents return 106 hours a week between them, which is the annual figure in chapter 02 divided across a 46-week working year.
PR Reviewer
- 01Read the diff with the surrounding module and its historyAutomated
- 02Check convention, naming and test coverage against the repository's own patternsAutomated
- 03Flag likely defects and missing error paths with the line referencedAutomated
- 04Engineer accepts or dismisses each flagReviewer input
Dismissals retune what the agent raises on this repository
- 05Post the review with the mechanical findings resolvedAutomated
- 06A human approves anything touching auth, payments or migrationsHuman gate
- 07Link the merged change to its ticket and update the component owner mapAutomated
The gate is a step, not a promise made in prose. Where a correction appears it is marked, because the correction persisting as training signal is the difference between an agent that improves and one that repeats itself.
7 steps → 2 touchpoints
What took 7 manual steps now needs a person at 2 of them.
3 → 1 queue
3 handoffs between people and systems collapse into one queue with the evidence already attached.
- Cost reduction$310k63%
- Revenue growth$96k20%
- Risk mitigation$84k17%
The agent roster above sums to the same total: $490k across 5 agents. Cost reduction is hours at a fully loaded rate, discounted 25% for ramp.
These agents are specified, not running. The software is built for the client who commissions it, after their audit has named the thresholds and the exception categories it has to work against. What is fixed is the pattern: 1 human gate in this flow, every action logged with its inputs and its approver.